HÀ NỘI –
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has introduced several new vaccines in the
National Expanded Programme on Immunisation in an effort to improve the
efficiency of disease prevention, the Preventive Health Department has
reported.
According
to the ministry, due to the high risk of disease outbreak, especially
infectious diseases, inoculation campaigns to administer free Japanese
encephalitis B injections and the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to children under
the age of five are planned.
Meanwhile,
measles and rubella vaccination campaigns benefitted nearly 20 million children
aged 14 and under, and was recently extended to 16- and 17-year-olds, thus
helping to contain the spread of disease.
As
scheduled, the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) will be put to use in 2017,
while the use of a vaccine against Rota virus will begin in 2018.
The MoH
said that the free provision of new vaccines is an effort to promote
sustainable disease prevention towards wiping out dangerous infectious
diseases.
The
health sector will continue its research in order to add new vaccines, such as
dengue fever and avian influenza H5N1 vaccines, to the national vaccination campaigns,
the ministry said.
Along
with these efforts, the ministry also worked with the military-run
telecommunication group Viettel on a project to build software for national
vaccination information management.
This
enables medical workers to keep a close watch on and summarise the vaccination
time table of patients, thus ensuring vaccinations are on schedule and
simultaneously improving the efficiency of State management in the field.
The
software has been piloted in the northern province of Bắc Ninh and Hà Nội. The
next beneficiaries will be HCM City and Đà Nẵng.
Over 700
districts with more than 11,000 communes and wards are expected to benefit from
the project when the software is deployed nationwide.
In
another development, HCM City said the city would provide 20,000 additional
doses of five-in-one Pentaxim to children aged two months to two years,
beginning on May 11.
The
city’s Department of Health has worked with the Viettel Group in addition to Việt
Nam Post and Telecommunications to set up two phone lines 1080 and 1068 for
registration.
The
registration will start on May 10, one day before the vaccines are scheduled to
be given at clinics. The operators will receive the registration over a 24-hour
period.
The
vaccine protects children from diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and
Haemophilus influenza type B.
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